This roundtable demonstrates the value of cognitive literary studies for teaching about subject formation in Cervantine texts. We use cognitive historicism to teach psychologized subjectivity and to show connections between medical philosophy and theory of mind. We propose cognitive models of the unconscious as alternatives to psychoanalysis. We use neuroscience research to teach empathy and humor as sources of resistance to race, class, and gender hierarchies.

Subjects:

The Teaching of Language and Literature – General

Spanish Literature – Before 1700

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